The Religion and Development in Asia project seeks to explore how religious actors, discourses, and practices intersect with development efforts, and how these engagements result in changes in our understanding of both “religion” and “development”. It consists of a series of workshops, conferences, edited volumes and journal special issues that provide an in-depth analysis of the role of religious actors in several sub-sectors of development – including but not limited to disaster relief, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, and education and social services. The project aims to stimulate a re-thinking of long held assumptions about the apparent binary opposition between “religion” and “development”. By explicitly engaging both practitioners and academics in these processes, the project aims to produce analysis that is relevant both to theory and to practice.

PI & Co-PI(s): Lim Khek Gee Francis, Michael Feener, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, Wu Keping, Kyuhoon Cho & Ronojoy Sen

Project Duration: 2012 – 2016